He Is Risen

The following is re-posted once again, in remembrance of Easter and of The Resurrection that must take place within all of us ~ g

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Let us pose the obvious question, the one logical problem:

'How can the fallen human-being become a god again? How can the prodigal son Thotmes return home?'

This problem and its solution is given in every Universal Philosophy: we are humans who are to become gods. The Great Messengers of humanity were gods who became human in order to show humans how to become gods.

If this problem stands clearly before you, you will know it was born 'in conflict', and that the road to it was toil and trouble. Like Prince Thotmes, you have to excavate your Sphinx, which will pose a great problem to you personally. If you neglect your Work for one moment, you will sink back into the bottomless depths of this nature. Then you will feel at one with this world, and you will become accustomed to it again. You must understand that for the defeated soul the question: 'How does the fallen human become a god again?' will develop enough motivation to be able to go the Path as a pilgrim to seek an answer the that question.

Hence we can say: Whoever has seen the Sphinx will enter the Pyramid.

The Pyramid is a temple of resurrection and not of worship. It is a temple not for symbolic acts but for instruction. It is a sepulchre. People can create a lot of mystification about it, but as the Pyramid is hewn in stone its essential language cannot be destroyed.

In our opinion everyone who has seen the Sphinx from within and everyone to whom the Sphinx has spoken, like Prince Thotmes, will be able to understand the stone language of the Pyramid. We say that the Sphinx makes the Call and that the Pyramid points out the Path.

From "The Mystery of the Sphinx and the Pyramid" - The Living Word - Catharose de Petri

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The ancients speak to us in symbols. Once you have the gnostic Key in hand, it is like reading an open book.

The Great Pyramid is a four-sided triangle, with a square base. Around the base one can draw a perfect circle. Triangle, Square, Circle.

These shapes have symbolic meaning:

Circle = the Eternal Spirit
Triangle = the Threefold Soul
Square = the fourfold Body

Thus the Pyramid itself represents the reunification of Spirit, Soul and Body, which is the ultimate aim of the transfiguristic Path of Return.

The interior of the Pyramid is constructed in such a way as to outline the steps of this Path using specific measurements, angles, different types of stone and sacred numerology (gematria). The exalted beings who constructed the Great Pyramid did so using a silent, common language that could speak to all human-beings, no matter what the time period. Of course, those human-beings would have to have the gnostic Key in hand.

During the time of the ancients, there were very, very few who were motivated to walk the Path of Return. Around the ancient world, those who showed that they were sincere about doing so were brought to secret places of initiation. This was the purpose of the Mayan and Aztec temples in the West. This was the purpose of the extensive system of caves in the Sabarthez region of southern France. This was the purpose of the Great Pyramid.

The Great Pyramid is not a tomb, as present-day bumbling archaeology earnestly chooses to define it. No physical human-being was ever buried there. It was a tomb for the I-being. It was where a true pupil was taken to complete the endura. It was where the old human-being died as to this nature and the New Man rose in its place.

That is why the "tomb" in the King's Chamber is empty. In silence, it expresses what was written regarding the Christed One on the day of His resurrection as a Divine Human Being:

"Why do you look for the Living among the dead? He is not here, He is risen". Luke 24:5-6

~ g
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Our Role In The Battle

A key part of the fivefold gnostic Path of Return is self-surrender. Self-surrender is the act of removing the nature-born "I" from its long-held position as King of the Microcosm and enabling the return of The Other One to its rightful leadership role.

This process of surrendering the self is not easy. The nature-born "I" is accustomed to having complete control over the personality. It will not give up its rulership easily. It will not go down without a fight. This will result in an internal struggle for the candidate. No matter how difficult the struggle may become, we must remember that we, as personalities, can do very little to advance the process. The battle being waged is between the "I" of nature and the Other One that is re-emerging from the blooming Rosebud.

We must recognize that in this battle for control of the personality, our personality must stand aside. We can only help by living our daily lives in the sign of the new Soul. We must acknowledge the confrontation that is taking place within our microcosm and turn over the task of subduing the "I" to the Other One, the re-emerging New Man.

If we are successful in doing this, all of our battles againt the "I" will be fought for us. The Christine radiations will do the work in us. When we cease to interfere in the process of self-surrender, it will become apparent that the influence of the "I" is steadily decreasing without our having to scourge or torture ourselves. Gradually, the things that used to matter will matter no longer. That is when we will know that the "I" has been neutralized, the battle won.

~ g
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The Call

A Call from the Divine Realms silently resounds throughout this nature-order. It can only be heard if we tune ourselves to its wavelenght and frequency. We, as nature-born beings, cannot make this connection via nature-born methods or exercises. The Divine Spark, the Spirit-Spark Atom, the Rose of the Heart, the smallest part of us, is the only part that can link up with the Divine Radiation. This follows the law of Like Attracts Like.

In order to "tune in" to this frequency, we must awaken our Divine Spark from its ages-long slumber. The awakening should result from a genuine longing, a yearning to renounce life here in the physical and effect a return to our True Home, the Sixth Cosmic Domain. The intensity of this yearning will determine how much of the Gnosis can be attracted.

We cannot serve both this nature and the Super-nature. We must choose one or the other. If we wish to succeed in our effort to effect Transformation and Transfiguration, we will have to go all in, we will have to push all of our chips to the middle of the table and let it ride.

The Path of the True Way stands before us. It beckons us with the promise that help and guidance will be provided every step of the way. It is we who must choose whether we will roll the dice...or not.

"Go, sell all that you have, and follow Me" -- The Christ Ray, speaking through the man, Jesus

~ g
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A New Candle

Reincarnation, or Rebirth, is like a candle in a room. We can view the candle as the personality and the room as the microcosm.

During life the candle burns brightly, then fades and finally goes out. The candle is not re-lit. Instead, a new candle is lit to light the same room. The old candle is discarded. 

The End

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Be Mindful Of Spiritual Wickedness In High Places

This post responds to a comment posted in "The Reflection-Sphere".

Re: "How do you know if you are being used by entities from the reflection sphere?"

It's not like you will hear voices in your head saying "Do this" or "Do that". The aeons transmit their subtle influences via the lights of the microcosmic auric being, the so-called "higher self", which in turn transfers these subtle influences to the human brain system, specifically the twelve cranial nerves that control the physical instrument. The mental and emotional bodies are also affected by these impulses. The end result is that although the human-being may believe that it was his thinking, willing and feeling that caused him to execute a certain act, in truth, he is simply a marionette responding to the pull of the strings being manipulated by his aeonic puppet master.

If your actions are selfish, self-focused, unloving, not mindful of the needs of others, etc., then the impulse for those actions is being transmitted to you by the aeons of this nature. You can tell because those actions are a reflection of the thoughts that create them, and such selfish thought-forms are encouraged and circulated by the unholy aeons. That is the way that you can tell if you are being manipulated by the aeons of this nature. Examine your thoughts, your emotions and your resulting actions. Then you will know.

Re: "Are you saying one should not listen to wisdom from ascended masters?" 

In the reflection-sphere, the so-called "dead" are exposed to a wider range of information than we have access to here in the physical realm. They also have the ability to take on any shape, form or appearance that they wish. These two factors enable them to easily impersonate well-known historical figures, saints, masters, space brothers, etc.

Yes, there are higher regions of the reflection-sphere where so-called "good" entities dwell, who try to influence humanity in their own way to "do good". We call them light-spirits. The information that they are imparting may be of high quality and accuracy or of a very dubious quality, rife with subtle errors and misinterpretations. Information from so-called "ascended masters", etc., like all information obtained from beyond the veil, should be received with careful discernment. If there are contradictions or misstatements, one would be wise to discount the information being shared.

There is another factor that can affect the information being transmitted from beyond. The channel being used to receive, interpret and transmit information to humans can unwittingly color the message and distort it. For example, if the reflection-sphere entity is transmitting a scientific message and the channel does not have a scientific intellect, the message will be distorted by the channel to fit his limited scientific understanding. For this reason, channeled messages should beheld up to the heart for examination. If it doesn't feel right, then it isn't right.

The reflection-sphere is the realm of delusion and deception. An entity calling itself St. Paul could easily be someone's recently-deceased Grandma Betsy. Therefore we must be careful about the messages that we receive from non-physical entities. Some of these entities have evil intent, others are trying to help but can make mistakes, and then there is a very small fraction of these entities who are pure enough and sincere enough to get a genuine message through. Of course, they must find a channel that is just as pure and just as sincere.

Finally, if the message is one of Fear, then it is not coming from a member of the Universal Brotherhood. True Children of the Light would never try to lower the vibration of any physical human-being through fear. Also, if the entity uses flattery and praise when it refers to you, that entity is not of Light. Flattery is a tool of the Dark Brothers, and they will use it to appeal to our prideful nature (if present) and get us to let our guard down.

We're not saying that all messages from beyond the veil are not helpful or factual. Of course there is powerful, truthful information coming through. What we are saying is that we must not accept a message out-of-hand just because an entity says its name is so-and-so. Always use discernment, as there is a lot of mischief going on in the reflection-sphere.

best,

~ g
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A Place To Stay

"When I was hungry, you gave me to eat.
When I was thirsty, you gave me to drink.
When I was naked, you clothed me.
When I was homeless, you took me in."

There is an esoteric meaning to these verses. To reveal the hidden meaning, one must remember that these words were not spoken by the human personality named Jesus, but by the Christ-Spirit that was in possession of Jesus' physical vehicle and was speaking through him.

The power of the Christ Radiation, the Gnosis, surrounds and interpenetrates the physical world. This Divine radiation literally passes through the physical body of most human-beings. Being oblivious to the presence of the Christ-Ray, they are unable to assimilate this energy into their microcosmic system. Crystallization and disintegration - what man calls 'death' - are the result.

But when a person chooses to walk the Path of Return, when a person makes the decision to do all that can be done to open the heart sanctuary to this constant influx of Divine energy, the Christ Radiations will no longer pass through this person, but will begin to collect and accumulate within the microcosm.

The Divine Spark - the Christ Within - hungry for Divine food and drink, will no longer suffer starvation or thirst.

The microcosm, including all of the soul-vehicles of the Candidate, will provide clothing (the purified and renewed physical, etheric, emotional and mental bodies) and shelter (the purified and renewed microcosm).

It is the sincere and dedicated Candidate on the Path who will look to provide the Christ with a place to stay.

~ g
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Perceived Scarcity And Lack

We live in a world, in a society / civilization that is founded on scarcity and lack. Certain items are identified as "valuable" or "desirable" and are then hoarded by the few to create a lack for the many. A false scarcity is created where it does not really exist. Civilization is left to fight, claw and kill to acquire these things that have been falsely identified as "scarce" and "valuable".

Gold has no value. It has functions and uses but there is no intrinsic value to "owning" gold, except for the value that this society has placed upon it. When the European conquerors came to the Americas looking for gold, the natives there were dumbfounded by their visitors' fascination and lust for the metal. The natives used the metal for decoration, monuments and the creation of sacred artifacts. Not because gold was valuable, but because it was "the metal of the Sun" and representative of the Deity. It was pliable and durable, and it was plentiful. It is said that these ancient pre-Columbian cultures knew the secret to manufacturing gold, a method brought to the Americas by Atlantean colonists hundreds of thousands of years earlier.

It was the European culture with their monarchies and banking systems that stirred the craving for gold to fill their coffers. Wars were routinely fought over it, millions killed and enslaved in order to snatch it from one nation and take it to another. They brought their disease of greed to the New World and infected all those whom they came in contact with.

As we move to the present-day, we see ourselves tirelessly working and striving to achieve some sort of financial standard that ever recedes from our grasp. We do this because we are taught that we need money to survive, and that the things we need are scarce in nature and must be purchased at high cost. In truth, there is no scarcity, there is no lack. Those are manufactured concepts. There is enough land on this planet to comfortably house, on several acres, everyone of its 7 billion inhabitants. Instead we are crammed into crowded, dirty cities and forced to live in spiritual and material filth. There is enough food on this planet to fatten every single on of its 7.5 billion inhabitants, but we see that people are allowed to starve worldwide, and when help is given, it comes in the form of cereals and milk. Meanwhile heads-of-state all over the world are millionaires/billionaires, eating like kings while pretending to be "public servants".

There is no material lack. There are no material things that we actually need. The only thing that we truly lack is proper knowledge about our True Purpose and proper understanding of our current spiritual state. All the things of the material world will pass away, as they must. We are charged to utilize our brief time on earth to discover our True Purpose, to locate the Path of Return and to follow it Home.

The Power that can help us achieve this goal lies within us. It sits at the center of our microcosm, a spot that corresponds with the upper right ventricle of the physical heart. This Power lacks nothing. This Power suffers no scarcity. This Power is Divine in nature and lies sleeping, as if it were a rosebud with petals tightly closed. This Power, this Divine Spark, must be awakened from its sleep of forgetfulness so that it can unfurl its petals and liberate the Divine, transforming energies that it contains.

It behooves us to turn our attention away from the false lack designed to imprison our hearts and minds. We must address our lack of Gnosis, the Knowledge that is of and with God. Unfortunately, there is a scarcity of those who are willing to seek out that Knowledge, or to find and follow the Path of the True Way.

May you find the strength to renounce the world and all the matter therein. May you seek, and seek, and seek, until you find the Key that unlocks the door to Abundance and Freedom.

~ g
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"What I Have Done, All Men Can Do"

36 In flesh of man there is the essence of the resurrection of the dead. This essence, quickened by the Holy Breath, will raise the substance of the body to a higher tone,

37 And make it like the substance of the planes above, which human eyes cannot behold.

38 There is a holy ministry to death. The essence of the body cannot be quickened by the Holy Breath until the fixed is dissolved; the body must disintegrate, and this is death.

39 And then upon these pliant substances God breathes, just as He breathed upon the Chaos of the Deep when worlds were formed,

40 And Life springs forth from death; the carnal form is change to form Divine.

41 The will of man makes possible the action of the Holy Breath. When will of man and Will of God are one, the Resurrection is a fact.

42 In this we have the chemistry of mortal life, the ministry of death, the mystery of deific Life.

43 My human life was wholly given to bring my will in tune with Deific Will; when this was done my earth-tasks all were done.

44 And you, my brothers, know full well the foes I had to meet; you know about My victories in Gethsemane; my trials in the courts of men; my death upon the cross.

45 You know that all my life was one great drama for the sons of men; a pattern for the sons of men; I lived to show the possibilities of man.

46 What I have done all men can do, and what I am all men shall be.

From Materialization of the Spiritual Body of Jesus - Section XXI, Chapter 178 of The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus, The Christ

It is important to know the true nature of the "sacrifice" that was made for humanity two thousand years ago. It's all there in a nutshell.

Flesh-and-blood cannot inherit the Divine Kingdom. However, the foundation for the change-over is laid via the purification of the physical and subtle vehicles during earth-life. This purification originates with the awakening of the Divine Spark that sleeps within the center of the microcosm. Once awakened, pure Christine radiations - the Gnosis - will steadily reach the microcosm, effecting a state of reversal within the Candidate, right down to the cellular level.

Just as the butterfly temporarily loses its form during its pupa stage, so will the Candidate reach a point where the cells of the body are in a state of rearrangement. It is at this point that "God breathes" the Divine Breath on these transmuted atoms. Transfiguration is the result. An immortal, new, glorified personality vehicle emerges.

It's been done before, to show us all that it can be done. Two thousand years ago, it was done by a single special human-being. In this current Age, this alchemical transformation will be accomplished by a multitude that no one can count.

~ g
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The Roots Of Affliction

1 The Lord with Peter, James and John were in Jerusalem; it was the Sabbath day.

2 And as they walked along the way they saw a man who could not see. He had been blind from birth.

3 And Peter said, Lord, if diseases and imperfections all are caused by sin, who was the sinner in this case? The parents or the man himself?

4 And Jesus said, Afflictions all are partial payments on a debt, or debts, that have been made.

5 There is a Law of Recompense that never fails, and it is summarized in that true Rule of Life:

6 "Whatsoever man shall do to any other man, some other man will do to him."

7 In this we find the meaning of the Jewish law, expressed concisely in the words, "Tooth for a tooth, life for a life".

8 He who shall injure anyone in thought, or word, or deed, is judged a debtor to the Law, and someone else shall, likewise, injure him in thought, or word or deed.

9 And he who sheds the blood of any man will come upon the time when his blood shall be shed by man.

10 Affliction is a prison cell in which a man must stay until he pays his debts, unless a Master sets him free that he may have a better chance to pay his debts.

11 Affliction is a certain sign that one has debts to pay.

12 Behold this man! Once in another life he was a cruel man, and in a cruel way destroyed the eyes of one, a fellow man.

13 The parents of this man once turned their faces on a blind and helpless man, and drove him from their door.

14 Then Peter asked, Do we pay off the debts of other men when by the Word we heal them, drive the unclean spirits out, or rescue them from any form of sore distress?

15 And Jesus said, We cannot pay the debts of any man, but by the Word we may release a man from his afflictions and distress,

16 And make him free, that he may pay the debts he owes, by giving up his life in willing sacrifice for men, or other living things.

17 Behold, we make free this man, that he may better serve the race and pay his debts.

From Chapter 138 of The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus, the Christ

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Once you understand that earth existence is not a one-shot affair but a linkage of successive rebirths, perhaps you will also begin to realize the following:

- Every Cause has its Effect
- Every Effect - good or bad - will rebound to the one who created the Cause.
- Death, so-called, is no barrier to karmic justice. The debts incurred in the present life will be paid in a future life.

Examine your own life and your own situations. Reflect on those things which you characterize as "afflictions". Then, instead of cursing the Creator, understand and realize that whatever afflictions that you are dealing with in this life are the Results of Causes that you, as a prior personality, put in motion in a previous life, perhaps long ages ago.

Therefore, be mindful of the Causes that you create today. Know that the Effects of your Causes, like a boomerang, will always return to you, in force, as all outstanding debts must eventually be repaid.

~ g
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The First Step Taken

This post is a response to questions posed in the comment section of Kiristi : Kristos : Christ. The response was too lengthy to post there.

re: "So why would any of the 7 billion personalities presently on earth want to join LR? The odds of winning a major lottery seem better than becoming a Divine human-being."

In fact, the majority of the earth's population have not reached the stage in their spiritual evolution that would encourage them to join a modern-day mystery school such as LRC. That's why the School presently has perhaps only 20,000 members world-wide. That is approximately 0.000003 percent of total humanity.

'Many Are Called, But Few Are Chosen'

Hundreds of millions of human-beings are 'life-spark' human-beings. These entities are completely of the earth and will never be interested in leaving it. In contrast, there are also many millions of  'spirit-spark' human-beings. These are the ones that may Seek. From these Seekers (the 'Called'), a small percentage will find their way to the Path and choose to walk it (the 'but Few'). These ones are not 'chosen' by some external entity. They 'choose' themselves by doing that which is necessary to walk the Path. The Path is freely available to all spirit-spark human-beings, but the human-being must seek it out.

The Path has to be a voluntary choice for it to matter. All Candidates must do the work themselves! LRC, as an earthly output of the Universal Brotherhood, only provides insight, guidance and assistance on a vibrational level (the Living Body of the School).

Actually, the odds of restoring the microcosm to its Divine state are better than the lottery, which is based on randomness and chance. The human body was specifically designed to participate in the process of transmutation and the Divine Plan of Salvation was created to assist Man in finding the process and completing it. The problem is that Man remains distracted by the glittering baubles of earth-life and so completely misses the Prize, the One Thing Needful. He then blames God for playing some sort of shell-game with humanity when in fact it is humanity that is completely absorbed in their own little game of pretending to hide from God and from their own Divine origins. Only those who are tired of this game will choose to stop playing it.

re: "People in this day and age want things instantly not maybe sometime in the future after 1000 lifetimes."

The above observation is true. However, there is no need to wait 1,000 lifetimes. We as microcosms have, in fact, already spent over 1,000 lifetimes just to get to this point in our development! The 'future' that you speak of is now here. Those who enter the Path in this life and begin the process of transmutation in this life have already achieved victory (see Victory At The Start). This is what sets the Path of the True Way apart from the pie-in-the-sky delaying tactics of common churchianity and 'paths of initiation'. Once your microcosm begins to undergo these changes, it is no longer completely earth-bound. Part of it is now composed of Divine ethers. Something immortal has entered the microcosmic system.

After the death of the personality of such a Candidate, the microcosm cannot go off to the reflection-sphere because it no longer vibrates in resonance with that realm. By way of analogy, once an ice cube begins to melt, it is no longer a cube. It cannot be placed back in the ice tray from which it came. The alchemical transformation that takes place within the Candidate, although interrupted by physical death, will have to be completed in another Realm, a realm set aside for the express purpose of housing those who have begun the Process while on earth. That realm is Shamballa, a vacuum of pure ethers that exists outside of and apart from the normal reflection-sphere.

This is why it is stated repeatedly that those who have taken even the first step on the Path of Return are blessed beyond measure, for they have assured themselves of never again having to take another turn on the Wheel of Death and Rebirth. Therefore, to paraphrase a verse from the Pistis Sophia:

"Rejoice and exult and add Joy to your Joy, for the times are completed for you to put on your Vesture, which hath been prepared for you from the Beginning, which you left behind in the Last Mystery until the time of its completion."

The 'time of completion' is now at hand.

~ g
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To Nothing Be Slave

"To nothing be Slave,

Nor desire Possession

Of man-child or wife,

Of home or of household;

Calmly encounter

The Painful, the Pleasant;

Adore Me only

With heart Undistracted;

Turn all your Thought

Towards solitude,

Spurning the noise of the Crowd,

Its fruitless Commotion;

Strive without ceasing

To know the Atman (God);

Seek this Knowledge

And comprehend clearly

Why you should seek It;

Such, it is said,

Are the Roots of True Wisdom;

Ignorance, merely,

Is all that denies them."

-- Krishna --
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No Doubt

This is a response to a recent comment posted in Every Man A Christ.

Friend,

In the movie The Matrix (1999), which is an extremely accurate allegorical portrayal of the Path of Return, complete with archons and aeons (the Agents) and the reborn New Man ("Neo" means "new"), there is a character who symbolically represents the Candidate who is struggling with his choice to walk the Path. The character is tired of living in poverty and eating gruel for breakfast, lunch and dinner. He longs for the world that he knew before embarking upon the Path, even though he knows for a fact that world is an Unreality.

The character's name is Cypher, and he represents the Judas in all of us, the part of ourselves that is willing to betray the Gnosis because we are tired of living two lives that are so diametrically opposed in their aims. The classic Judas-person wants to make a paradise of the world that can be seen with the eyes. This makes more sense to him than suffering for an unseen world whose reality his five senses cannot confirm. In frustration and disillusionment, Cypher chooses to leave the Path and return to the Unreality, the Matrix, the physical world. In the movie, he sits down with an archon (the Agent) to cut a deal:

Cypher: You know...I know this steak doesn't exist. I know that when I put it in my mouth, the Matrix is telling my brain that it is juicy and delicious. After nine years, you know what I realize?

Ignorance is bliss.

The Agent: So, we have a deal?

Cypher: I don't wanna remember nothing. Nothing. Do you hear me? And I wanna be rich. You know, somebody important. Like an actor.

The Agent: Whatever you want.

Yep, whatever you want. Just leave the Path and return to the old ways. The Prince of This World will make it worth your while.

Many are lost to the Path in this fashion, which is a tragedy. To have come so far, through so many lives, only to abandon the journey when one is right at the doorstep is a great loss for the Candidate. There is no guarantee that the former Candidate will ever get another opportunity to complete this walk to Freedom. It could be many lives and tens of thousands of years before he or she reaches this point again. On top of that, there's no guarantee that the former Candidate will not completely lose their way during that time and end up lost to the Gnosis forever.

Lose yourself instead in service to others. Do not render such service with any expectation of gratitude or return. Many will be helped even if they do not appreciate or acknowledge the help given. In fact, we help others the most when we assimilate the Light-Power of the Gnosis and radiate it to the world. Every human-being radiates something via their aura. Most of the time, it's a radiation of a very low frequency. We who are on the Path have access to a higher radiation, one of great purity and power. It is our task to pass that frequency along to those who cannot yet access it directly. Their auras will be affected, of this there is no doubt. Something will change within them. We who pass on this radiation will not get to see the results of our Service, but we can be certain beyond a shadow of a doubt that Service has been rendered.

If we are serving and expecting to see the results of our serving, then we are serving from the viewpoint of the ego, the I-being. Giving means just what it says: giving. Nowhere in the definition of Giving is there any mention of a reciprocal return. It is the "I" that wants to see results. It is the "I" that looks for gratification and self-congratulation.

To avoid the fate of the Judas-person, the Candidate must have Faith. After having the Path of Return revealed and explained to him/her, he or she must believe with an Inner Knowing that what has been revealed to him/her is true, and that if he/she follows the requirements, he/she will reach The Goal with certainty. Without this Faith, the Candidate will most surely fail in his/her efforts to move the mountain that stands before him or her.

This is your Dark Night of the Soul. This is where many waver. All Candidates have gone through this phase or will go through this phase. Just think of Jesus and the Temptation in the Desert. The aeons of this nature, who completely control your I-being, are trying to influence you to Doubt that which your awakening heart sanctuary knows to be True. For your part, you must continue to trust the still, small voice of the heart over the clanging din that your I-being is making. Doubt is a trick of the archons and the aeons of this nature. It is a very ancient trick but also a very effective one.

By Faith, we do not mean to wanly hope that something might be true or that something may happen. The Faith of the Travelers on the gnostic Path of Return is born from an unwavering inner knowing that what has been revealed to us is true and will happen, as long as we do not falter.

Remain detached to the suffering that you see around you, or even to your own suffering. Although difficult for some to believe, the suffering that we see in this world is the result of karma lawfully working itself out on this plane. Serve, and keep serving. Give, and keep giving. Radiate that which has been radiated to you. Know that you are not alone, that this Path is walked in group unity, and that in this group the strong will always stand for the weak, until the weak also grow strong.

This Unreality is temporary and will eventually fade away like a puff of smoke, as it always does. When the smoke clears, only the immortal Divine Reality will remain, ready to accept those who have completed the journey Home.

Put away your doubts, and rest in the certain knowledge that your labors are not in vain.

all love,

~ g
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Every Man A Christ

"What I have done all men can do, and what I am all men shall be." - The Christ, from The Aquarian Gospel, Chapter 178:46.

For our entire lives we have been taught that Jesus, the Christ, came to earth to redeem mankind's sins. In exchange for His tortuous death on a wooden cross, all of mankind, then-present and future, would be freed from sin. That's right, all of mankind's sins were forgiven by His noble sacrifice on the hill of Golgotha.

Any rational-thinking human-being will recognize this premise as prima facie ridiculous. Amazingly, there are millions of human-beings who sit in churches large and small to listen to some duplicitous middleman tell them just that. Jesus died for your sins! Your sins have been forgiven!

Um, okay, so what's the deal with all of the atrocities that are taking place in the world today? Have they been forgiven in advance? Is that why lawlessness rules during these troubled times?

First off, there's no way that mankind is going to get off the hook that easily. Each human entity carries the karma of all entities that have preceded him or her in the microcosm. It is the duty of the human entity - what we call the personality - to work to balance that microcosmic karma during earth-life. No one can do this work for the personality. Well, there is an exception to this rule, but that will be discussed later, when we discuss the true meaning behind the doctrine of the forgiveness of sins.

No, the mission of Jesus was not to vicariously atone for all of mankind's sins. His assignment was multi-faceted and far-reaching:

Task 1: To provide a purified human vehicle suitable for use by the Christ-Spirit, the Love-Aspect of the Father.

Task 2: Set a pattern for future mankinds to follow. To demonstrate in real-time, by a Life-example personally witnessed by many thousands, that it is eminently possible for a human-being to transmute, transform and transfigure into an immortal, Divine human-being.

Task 3: Allow the physical body of Jesus to be crucified in order to release the power of the Christ-Spirit into all of the inner planes of the Earth. This resulted in a level of purification that benefits humanity up until the present day.

Task 4: Weaken the power of the aeons by a third of a measure.

This post focuses on Task 1 - The Pattern. The things that this entity did two thousand years ago, the teachings, the healings, the miracles, the suffering, the death and the victory over death, were so astonishing that the memory of the entity's life lives on as if those events had taken place yesterday. The deeper teachings, the Mysteries, were reserved for Jesus' inner circle. For the masses, His life was to be the template by which the common human-being could begin to walk the Path of Purification, the Path of the True Way.

The Adversary established churches and religions to dilute the true Teachings and vanquish those who maintained and preserved those Teachings in their pure form, the gnostics. Present humanity is now left with a watered-down doctrine administered to the spiritually poor by a materially rich priesthood. This long-standing injustice has disillusioned millions, and led them further away from the liberating Truth, which is, of course, what the Adversary is striving to accomplish.

Every human-being has the potential to become a Christ. Indeed, that is the One Goal that we have incarnated to accomplish. The task for humanity is to recognize The Pattern that was gifted to us two thousand years ago and to use that Pattern to shape the lives that we lead while on Earth. The Pattern comes with a couple of very simple operating instructions:

"Do unto others as you would have others do unto you".

"Love God above all else".

~ g
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Kiristi : Kristos : Christ

Kiristi (Sumerian): "fish/son; stars/mountain/blazing; life;"

Krista (Sanskrit) "all-attractive"

Kristos (Greek): "anointing"

Christ (present-day) "the anointed"

The word "Christ " is not a surname like Smith, Jones or Clark. The word is a title, a description. Jesus Christ is not quite the same as John Smith (although in the past "Smith" did indicate an occupation, i.e., "blacksmith").

To have earned the title of "Christ" means that one has opened one's heart to the ever-present Christine radiations that surround and interpenetrate this planet and all of humanity. Once a human-being consciously opens the heart sanctuary to these divine energies, wonderful changes begin to take place in the microcosm. The process of Soul Rebirth begins. If this alchemical process is allowed to reach a successful conclusion, that person is considered to have become a "Christ". He or she is a Christed One.

Again, the Christ is an intercosmic radiation of great power. It is not Jesus' last name. It is the Love-Aspect of the Triune Father and emanates from the Father, the All. When this Divine radiation is properly assimilated by an entity, the entity will undergo a Divine transformation that will lift the entity out of the physical plane. When this intercosmic radiation is resisted, rejected or otherwise not properly assimilated by an entity, the entity will undergo crystallization and disintegration.

In the Bible, there are many seemingly personal references made by Jesus, the human personality, that appear to equate him with God. Be advised that anything that Jesus says after he is baptized in the Jordan River does not issue from Jesus, the human personality. After the baptism, Jesus, the human personality, turns over his physical vehicle to the Christ-Spirit mentioned above, for Its full use and disposition. Anything that comes out of Jesus' mouth from that point forward is not spoken by Jesus, the human personality. It is the Christ-Spirit speaking through Jesus.

This is something that the Pharisees couldn't (or wouldn't) understand. Actually, they knew exactly what was taking place but their job was to try and convince the masses that Jesus, the personality, was a blasphemer and a charlatan. So they ignored the fact that the physical vehicle had been turned over to an aspect of the Father, the Christ-Spirit and focused their efforts on trying to find ways to murder Jesus, the human personality.

The modern churches, which are the synagogue of Satan referenced in the holy works, perpetuate this folly by not explaining what is behind statements made by Jesus such as:

"Whatsoever you do unto your brother, that you do unto me"
"Do this in remembrance of me".
"Where two or three are gathered in my name, so there am I"

In the statements above, the personal pronouns "I", "me" and "my" refer not to Jesus, the human personality, but to the Christ-Spirit that was using the physical vehicle of Jesus, the human personality. Additionally, as the Christ-Spirit is the Love-Aspect of The All, essentially and by proxy, the presence of the Christ-Spirit in the body of Jesus, the human personality, represented God on earth. That is in fact the interpretation of the name Immanuel. It means "God Is With Us".

How did man expect for God to contact humanity? Through voices in the clouds? Talking fish? Crying statues? Any good magician, black or white, could accomplish those feats. In order to make direct contact with humanity, The All had to send an aspect of Itself to dwell in a physical body and live as man among men. That physical body had to be of a very high quality, which was why Jesus, the human personality, was born to Joseph and Mary, members of the Essenes, a gnostic sect that lived in purity and harmony.

Despite the visual propaganda of the bloody and crucified figure on the cross that has been subliminally burned into the consciousness of the masses by the Adversary as a symbol of defeat ("look at your so-called 'messiah'. He failed, we got him!") the mission of the Christ was eminently successful. Although the crucifixion appeared to be a victory for His enemies - the Sanhedrin - (and make no mistake, it was the Pharisaic rabbinical element that pursued, encouraged and demanded that the Roman State execute Jesus, the human personality, on the flimsiest of trumped-up charges), what took place on Golgotha (or 'Calvary', as some call it) was a victory for all of mankind over the aeons of this nature.

Will try to expand upon that Victory in an upcoming post. For now, just keep in mind that the entity in the New Testament speaking as Jesus is not Jesus, the human personality, but the Christ-Spirit speaking through an anointed Jesus. If one reads the NT with this key in hand, a veil or two should be lifted.

~ g
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The Ninth Floor

There is an old episode of The Twilight Zone which contains some very poignant symbolism. The title of the episode is "The After Hours". The story, in brief:

"When Marsha White gets off the express elevator on the ninth floor of the department store, she finds it a desolate place where the lone piece of merchandise is a gold thimble. She buys it, although the saleslady, who appears familiar, is extremely rude. As Marsha returns to the first floor, she notices that the thimble is scratched, but when she complains, she’s told that the store does not have a ninth floor. Looking around, Marsha spots the salesgirl who sold it to her, only to discover the figure is just a mannequin. Beset with panic, Marsha's assisted into an inner office where she falls asleep. When she wakes up, the mystery of the ninth floor will be revealed."

** Spoiler Alert **

Those who wish to find out for themselves how the story ends should stop reading now and view the entire half-hour episode here (you'll be allowed to skip the occasional commercial). Others may read on.

Marsha spots the saleslady from behind and goes to speak with her. To her shock, she sees that the woman is a store mannequin. She begins to hear voices that appear to emanate from other store mannequins. They are all calling her name. In panic, she stumbles onto the express elevator and is transported to the empty ninth floor once more. The story wraps up as follows:

"There, she gradually realizes that the mannequins are alive, trying to help her, and that she is also a mannequin. It is explained to her that each mannequin takes turns going out into the world to live among the humans for one month every year, but Marsha had enjoyed her stay among "the outsiders" so much that she lost her identity and forgot her true nature. Being with the other mannequins, she realizes that she is back in her natural place, which allows the next mannequin in line—the female salesclerk—to go out and live among the humans for thirty days. As the other mannequins bid farewell to the salesclerk, the sailor asks Marsha if she enjoyed her time among the humans. She says she had "ever so much fun, ever so much fun." As Marsha fondly recalls her brief sojourn out among the humans, and with a passing expression of regret, confusion, and a small sigh, she and the sailor assume their natural posing postures, and grow rigid as mannequins." 

Somehow, Rod Serling, the author of this teleplay, managed to tap into a great Truth regarding man's existence on the physical plane. The department store symbolizes the dynamic, physical world, the Seventh Cosmic Domain. The non-existent ninth floor represents the static Divine realm, the Sixth Cosmic Domain.

As microcosmic personalities, we are but temporary sojourners here in the physical world. Man was never meant to remain here indefinitely in the physical realm. Yet, due to Forgetfulness, Man believes that this world is his home, and clings to it tenaciously. Man works to make a "paradise "of this temporary domain, then cries in anguish when everything repeatedly goes up in smoke. Because he has forgotten, he does not realize that everything is supposed to fall apart in the physical realm. Nothing is lasting. There can be no permanence in a temporary realm.

Immersed in his delusion, Man will search for something, he knows not what. In the above story, that "something" is the gold thimble which, if you haven't considered it by now, represents the Divine Spark in man. Notice how the gold thimble can only be found on a floor that does not exist (i.e., a plane other than the physical plane). Also note the still, small voices that sound The Call for Marsha to "come home".

A neat little story, one that carries a message for mankind but a message disguised as a fantasy. Those who have eyes to see and ears to hear will recognize that this story is not a fantasy, but a Remembrance brought into physical manifestation by Mr. Serling to stir something in the hearts of those who may happen to view the show. Understand the key point of this story:

This physical realm is not the reality. Our reality lies in what has been told to us is "not reality". Be advised that this earth-life is the dream that we must awaken from, and that our liberated brothers and sisters remain ever-watchful, waiting for us to heed The Call and return Home.

~ g
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A Child Is Born

Everyone is aware of the literal interpretation of the Birth of Jesus. Joseph's wife Mary was with child and they were unable to find lodging so that she could give birth. Fortunately, they found a stable and Mary was able to deliver her child amidst the filth of the natural earth.

Three Wise Men came from the East, following the light of a star. They brought to the babe gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh. They also brought a warning to the parents of the child. King Herod had charged them to look for the "newborn king", and report back to him when found. Herod intended to kill the babe, who he thought was a threat to his earthly throne.

Okay, that's the literal interpretation. Now for the esoteric interpretation.

The Child that is being born is representative of the awakening of one's Divine Spark. The Child is an allegory for the Rose of the Heart. The stable, or cave, represents the "cave" of the human heart in its polluted state, submerged in the natural world. The natural world is represented by the stone walls of the cave (mineral kingdom), the presence of straw or hay (plant kingdom), the beasts kept there (animal kingdom) and earth-born humanity (the shepherds).

The gifts of the Magi - or Wise Men - are interpreted as follows: gold, the symbol of nobility; frankincense, the symbol of the wisdom of the sage; and myrrh, the symbol of dominion and power. These are the attributes of the Original Divine Human-Being, the True Man, the "Other One" that will be reborn within the microcosm if the candidate faithfully follows the Path of Return and diligently grows in the Gnosis.

King Herod represents the aeons of this nature. They are aware of this Birth, this Awakening, because there is an immediate disturbance in the astral field of the Candidate. The Divine part of the personality has started to make its presence known. Without hesitation, the agents of the aeons rush to oust this foreign body from the system of the Candidate. They are charged with extinguishing the Divine Spark before it has an opportunity to set up a stronghold in the personality. To Herod, this child-king is a threat to his own earthly power. However, this newborn king has no intention of ruling over the physical earth. Its kingdom is not of this world.

Mercifully warned, the Child is spirited away as the family flees into Egypt. In the Holy Language, Egypt represents the hermetic land, the land of the hierophant and the alchemical process (the ancient name for Egypt was "Khem"). Here, the child will be protected and nurtured, safely hidden away from Herod's soldiers.

Finally, this Child is the Divine Child that can and must be born within the hearts of each one of us. The symbolism has been placed in the New Testament for your benefit, to enable you to realize that the Universal Brotherhood is with us always, has never abandoned us, and has for us - in symbol and allegory - a trail of instructions to follow as we seek to bring the Child, the Other One, to full maturity.

Hark, the herald angels sing: "Glory to the newborn King".

~ g
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Result Depends On Cause

26 And Jesus said, We cannot look upon a single span of life and judge of anything.

27 There is a law that men must recognize: Result depends on Cause.

28 Men are not motes to float about within the air of one short life, and then be lost to nothingness.

29 They are undying parts of the Eternal Whole that come and go, lo, many times into the air of earth and the Great Beyond, just to unfold the God-like Self.

30 A Cause may be part of one brief life; Results may not be noted 'til another life.

31 The Cause of your Results cannot be found within my life, nor can the Cause of my Results be found in yours.

32 I cannot reap except I sow and I must reap whate'er I sow,

33 The law of all eternities is known to master minds:

34 Whatever men do unto other men the Judge and Executioner will do to them.

35 We do not note the execution of this law among the sons of men.

36 We note the Weak dishonored, trampled on and slain by men called the Strong.

37 We note that men with wood-like heads are seated in the chairs of State,

38 Are kings and judges, senators and priests, while men with giant intellects are scavengers about the streets.

39 We note that women with a moiety of common sense and not a whit of any other kind, are painted up and dressed as queens,

40 Becoming ladies of the courts of puppet kings, because they have the form of something beautiful; while God's own daughters are their slaves, or serve as common laborers in the field.

41 The sense of Justice cries aloud: This is a travesty on Right.

42 So when men see no further than one little span of life it is no wonder that they say, There is no God, or if there is a God, He is a tyrant and should die.

43 If you would judge aright of human life, you must arise and stand upon the crest of Time and note the Thoughts and Deeds of men as they have come up through the ages past;

44 For we must know that man is not a creature made of clay to turn again to clay and disappear.

45 He is a part of the Eternal Whole. There never was a time when he was not; a time will never come when he will not exist.

46 And now we look; the men who are now slaves were tyrants once; the men who are now tyrants have been slaves.

47 The men who suffer now, once stood aloft and shouted with a fiend's delight while others suffered at their hands.

48 And men are sick, and halt, and lame, and blind because they once transgressed the laws of Perfect Life, and every law of God must be fulfilled.

49 Man may escape the punishment that seems but due for his misdoings in this life; but every Deed and Word and Thought has its own metes and bounds,
50 Is Cause, and has its own Results, and if a wrong be done, the doer of the wrong must make it right.

51 And when the wrongs have been righted, then will man arise and be at one with God.

From The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ, Chapter 114:26-51

Man suffers now the Results of Causes sown in previous lives. Man sows now that which shall be reaped in a future life.

There is not much that man can do about his present karma. But man can put in motion ever greater Causes in this life, and so reap just Results in a future life.

~ g
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Turn Not Away

This post is in response to comment left in The Divine Seed

re: "The one thing everybody knows is that death is inevitable"

My friend, there is no death.

It is the periodic termination of physical life that is inevitable, for the physical life is meant to be only a temporary state-of-consciousness. Physical "death" as seen by the earthly man who stands on this side of The Veil appears to be a final end-point. when it is in fact nothing more than a withdrawal of Life from the physical plane.

Those of the earth who are unaware or unbelieving of the fact that Life is continuous and that the microcosm periodically generates a personality to take a brief"dip into matter", will always live their physical lives in fear and anxiety.

In the passage that you referenced, Shakespeare's MacBeth shared this earth-centric view of life. He ascribed earth-life to "signify nothing", which is an error. Although temporal in nature and strewn with suffering, sorrow, injustice and futility, earth-life serves a great purpose. It is through this suffering, sorrow, injustice and futility that man is led to the Gnosis. Over many lives, the lessons are slowly learned, until finally, a personality is generated who, weary of the many turns of the Wheel, will use its accumulated karmic and hereditary experience to find the Path of the True Way, and effect the deliverance of the microcosm from the fetters of matter.

The futility of trying to find the Truth here in the Darkness is completely understood. There is a vast spiritual supermarket out there wherein the blind are leading the blind. And when the blind lead the blind, both will fall into a pit.

The Gnosis is the Truth that you have been seeking. After countless lives, Remembrance has led you to the doorstep of Liberation. It is hoped that you will allow your Heart to gauge the Truth that is being presented to you, and that you will not turn away in disillusionment after having come so very far.

~ g
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The Spiritual Texts Academy Presents: Spiritual Christmas

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Spiritual Christmas

"This program is an initiative of the Pentagram Bookstore in Haarlem, the Netherlands. It aims to bring the eternal and pure spiritual message to those who inwardly long for life fulfilment.

Participants will receive a daily e-mail during the coming Christmas season, from December 22 – the day after the winter solstice – until January 6, the day of Epiphany.

The texts allow you to contemplate the esoteric meaning of Christmas and the Christmas season. By focusing your attention on it you create a receptivity to a very spiritual process: the Light-birth within yourself. That is the Christmas miracle of awakening and activating the divine being within you. It is the beginning of a completely new spiritual path that never ends.

Free online program, based on ‘The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ’ by Levi Dowling.

Register for daily inspiration from December 22 to January 6"

Although it's recommended that the readings be done on the designated day, links to the entire series are provided below for your convenience. ~ g

• 22-12 morning: Preparing yourself (link appears to be broken)
• 22-12 evening: Birth of Mary (chapter 1)

• 23-12 morning: Recognizing the inner man in yourself
• 23-12 evening: The birth of John (chapter 2)

• 24-12 morning: Preparing your way
• 24-12 evening: The birth of Jesus (chapter 3)

• 25-12 morning: Giving birth to the divine being in yourself
• 25-12 evening: The Consecration of Jesus (chapter 4)

• 26-12 morning: In this sign you will conquer
• 26-12 evening: Three magian priests and the flight to Egypt (chapter 5)

• 27-12 morning: Your magic gifts
• 27-12 evening: The children’s massacre by King Herod’s order (chapter 6)

• 28 -12 morning: Treats form the world and from yourself
• 28-12 evening: Mary and Elisabeth are taught in a mystery school in Egypt 1 (chapters 7 + 8)

• 29-12 morning: Your assignment in life
• 29-12 evening: Mary and Elizabeth are taught in a mystery school in Egypt 2 (chapters 9 + 10)

• 30-12 morning: Looking back at the past
• 30-12 evening: Mary and Elizabeth are taught in a mystery school in Egypt 3 (chapters 11 + 12)

• 31-12 morning: Taking leave of your teachers
• 31-12 evening: Speech in india about God and the divine (chapter 28)

• 01-01 morning: Unfolding your talents
• 01-01 evening: The parable of the rocky field (chapter 33)

• 02-01 morning: The hidden treasure in your heart
• 02-01 evening: The importance of rest, silence and reflection (chapter 40)

• 03-01 morning: Attention for your inner development
• 03-01 evening: The limitations of mental thinking (chapter 44)

• 04-01 morning: Awakening of the spirit-consciousness within you
• 04-01 evening: The universal postulates of the seven sages (chapters 58 + 59)

• 05-01 morning: Seven fundamental principles for your life
• 05-01 evening: John and Jesus at the Jordan river (chapters 63 + 64)

• 06-01 morning: The descent of the Holy Breath
• 06-01 evening:  The rebirth of water and the Holy Breath (chapter 75)

all love,

~ g

The Highest State Of Desire

[QUOTING]

Man has four vehicles: the material body, its etheric double, the desire body and the thinking faculty. The etheric body builds and maintains the material body; the desire body defines the inclinations, the type, the character, the ability of the man -- in short, his essential nature.

The desire body surrounds and penetrates us from every angle and the astral fluids enter our material system by means of the liver. So the liver is more especially the focus of the desire body, as it has developed since birth. The head and the heart of natural man are slaves of the desire body. Your feelings and your thinking as a person of this nature are regulated by your pelvic sanctuary. Consequently, you live out of your pelvic sanctuary, through your spleen-liver system, bound to matter, desiring and focused upon everything that is of ordinary nature. All astral radiations enter the liver in accordance with the activities of your desire nature.

When, after endless roaming on the dreary Road of Experience, a human-being reaches a dead-end in nature-bound life, it can happen that he begins to desire renewal, to yearn for a liberating solution; that in such a man something like a yearning for salvation develops, an urge to seize one or another approach to salvation -- to realize it within himself, that he might climb up out of the pit of mortification. This state of searching for renewal, this increasingly conscious state of yearning for salvation is the highest form of desire of which nature-born man is capable. You cannot reach higher.  This is the highest state, the limit of dialectical astral radiation. When we stand at this border, the Gnosis touches us; not in the liver, but in the heart.

The first touch of the Gnosis always takes place in the heart sanctuary; however, that occurs only in answer to one's yearning for salvation. Therefore it is out of the question that anyone who would approach the Temples of the gnostic Spiritual School simply experimentally or out of curiosity would benefit in any way. It is beneficial to be in a gnostic focus only when the heart has opened somewhat for the Gnosis, yet only as a result of that highest state of desire, the yearning for salvation.

From "Pymander and Hermes" - The Egyptian Arch-Gnosis, Vol II - Jan van Rijckenborgh

[END QUOTING]

The heart is the seat of desire. What we desire we attract to us. That is a natural response to a natural law. Like Attracts Like.

In order to attract the purifying radiations of the Gnosis, we must yearn for the New Life with everything that is within us. We must obtain the highest state of desire mentioned in the excerpt above, the desire to put down the things of this world and return to Whence we came. If we can pursue this objective steadfastly and in deep humility, the law will fulfill itself and we will attract into our heart the astral radiations of a Divine realm, the 6th Cosmic Domain. This re-linking with the Gnosis will awaken the Rose of the Heart, the Spirit-spark Atom, from its eons-long sleep and set a Dynamo in motion.

This Power will not force itself upon you. It must be asked for, sought after, desired with everything that is within you. Your actions must support that desire. It is truly a yearning like no other.

~ g
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In Their Image

7 God's meeting place with man is in the heart, and in a still small voice He speaks, and he who hears is still.

9 And Jesus said, the Holy Breath cannot be seen with mortal eyes; nor can men see the Spirits of the Holy One;

10 But in their image man was made, and he who looks into the face of man looks at the image of the God Who speaks within.

11 And when man honors man he honors God, and what man does for man he does for God.

12 And you must bear in mind that when man harms in Thought, or Word or Deed another man, he does a wrong to God.

If you would serve the God Who speaks within the heart, just serve your near of kin, and those that are not kin, the stranger at the gate, the foe who seeks to do you harm.

13 Assist the poor and help the weak; do harm to none and covet not what is not yours;

14 Then with your tongue the Holy One will speak; and He will smile behind your tears, will light your countenance with Joy, and fill your hearts with Peace.

Chapter 26:7, 9-14 - The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus, the Christ

~ g
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The Divine Seed

In the center of the microcosm of every Spirit-spark human-being is a Divine Spark, a Divine Seed. This Divine Principle is the only part of the human-being that is not created from nor composed of physical material. This tiny Divine Atom is the Immortal part of the finite human-being. It contains powers, faculties and abilities far beyond the imagination of even the most gifted author of science-fiction.

Man was once a Divine creature but lost his link to Divinity when he turned to selfishness. Only the Divine Spark remained as a link to his former heritage. However, this link, this Spark, cannot bloom and flourish in the physical universe. It needs to re-link with the radiations of the Original Nature, the Divine Kingdom, the Sixth Cosmic Domain.

It may seem difficult to believe that a tiny atom could contain within it all of the resources necessary to transform a man into a god, but it is true. Think of the ordinary seed that we are so familiar with here on earth. How do tiny seeds grow in to mighty trees? How do tiny embryos grow into fetus, infant, child, teenager, adult?

Simple. Every seed, no matter what its origin, always contains within it every single attribute required for the growth of the organism, as well as instructions for bringing those attributes to life. The seed will execute these instructions automatically. All that is required is the proper nurturing environment, rich soil in which the seed can thrive and a little water now and then.

As Below, So Above. The Divine Atom, the Divine Spark that sleeps within us, is no different. It too, is a seed, albeit a Seed unlike any known to humankind. It too, requires a nurturing environment, rich soil in which to grow. This environment is a purified astral body. The rich soil is the purified blood that flows through the human heart. The human-being is the Gardener who must till the soil, water the Seed, pull the weeds that threaten to choke off its growth, and provide it with the Love and Attention required.

If the human-being can prove himself an effective gardener, the Seed will bloom. The Rosebud will open and blossom into a radiating, golden Rose with seven petals. That blossoming is the beginning of a wonderful process of transmutation and transfiguration that will end in the realization of a glorified human Personality. Via Soul-rebirth, the True Man will be restored to its former Divine state.

You carry this Divine Seed within you. You are incubator, mid-wife, gardener and caretaker of this seed. You are responsible for its growth and maturation. You are a partner in the Great Work. Take time to contemplate the responsibility that you, as an image-bearer in your microcosm, must undertake. It is your job to enable this Seed to unfold its Powers once more.

In this Task, you must not fail.

~ g
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The Articles Of Surrender

The Self must surrender its control and influence over the personality.

Those things that the "I" desires can no longer be considered, nor satisfied.

Those thoughts that the "I" habitually entertains can no longer be a part of the Thought-Life.

Those acts that the "I" once carried out to selfishly fulfill its own dictates can no longer be committed by thy hands.

These are the articles of surrender.

The terms are unconditional.

~ g
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The Unselfish

This post responds to a comment posted in Opening The Rose - The Fivefold Path To Liberation

Friend,

(1) The transfiguristic process, as described, is not a selfish process. Throughout the description given, an "Other One" is referred to. It is not for the self that the sincere candidate seeks Liberation, it is to liberate the "Other One" who arises as a result of an opened Rose of the Heart.

When The Goal has been reached nothing of the human personality will remain. Perhaps this was not made clear enough. The candidate's consciousness will merge with the consciousness of the resurrected New Man, the "Other One", but the form does not persist, nor does the selfish "I" that once was.

Anyone who attempts to walk this Path in the selfish manner that you have described will not be successful. One cannot have it both ways. Once cannot execute the most Unselfish of acts while simultaneously thinking only of the self.

To "know thyself" is to know that the personal self is but a temporary image-bearer, whose sole purpose in life is to remember its Calling and to pursue it. That is embedded in the meaning of "Man, Know Thyself". If the image-bearer is successful in completing its Task, there will be nothing left of the personal self when The Goal has been reached.

It might help to think of the personal self as the yolk within an egg. The yolk is there to provide nourishment and sustenance for the chick that is forming inside the egg. As the chick grows, the volume of yolk gradually decreases. Eventually, the chick emerges fully-formed and there is no yolk to be seen anywhere. All of this takes place within the same eggshell. Transfiguration follows this pattern (As Above, So Below). By way of analogy, the "yolk" represents the personal self, the "egg" is the microcosm and the chick represents the "Other One", the resurrected New Man, the glorified Divine Personality.

(2) Once the goal of Final Liberation has been achieved, the victorious candidate does not straightaway ride off into the sunset. At that point, all Liberated Ones are presented with a Choice:

a. return to the Divine Kingdom and beyond, severing all future contact with earth-humanity forever, or,

b. remain behind within reach of the earth-sphere in order to help other lost and confused image-bearers to achieve the same Goal. In Buddhism this is known as "The Great Renunciation". The Liberated One can reincarnate - voluntarily, and by choice - in order to walk amongst men once again, if or when required to do so in service of the Divine Plan.

The large majority of Liberated Ones choose to remain behind. They recognize a duty to mankind, to their fallen brothers and sisters who are still struggling in darkness. Having climbed the summit of evolutionary achievement, they voluntarily choose to delay their own Evolution in order to help the fallen. It is from these exalted ranks that humanity gets its Christs, its Buddhas, its Krishnas, its Hermes Trismegistuses, its Bodhisattvas, etc.

Some may view the Liberated Ones who decline choice (b) as committing the ultimate Selfish Act. This view is mistaken. At that high level of evolution, having completed The Great Work, Liberated Ones are presented with the privilege of choosing their next step. There is no judgment, either way. Both Choices are valid choices. To the human-being, choosing to not remain behind appears 'selfish', but it is not. Earthly thinking will find it difficult to penetrate this apparent paradox, but there is no paradox.

3) Mother Theresa is indeed an example of humanism and earthly "love". As a nature-born human-being, there is a desire to help humanity but for lack of knowledge, she and others pursue this desire on a horizontal level. Yes, feeding and clothing those in need will help them - on a temporary basis. However, in order to truly help humanity and provide our fallen brothers and sisters with permanent relief from sorrow, those who can must walk the Path of Liberation. Doing so weakens the grip of the archons and aeons on the rest of humanity and provides more workers in the vineyard to serve the Divine Plan of Salvation.

"I will be with you always, even until the end of the Age" - The Christ

best,

~ g
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Opening The Rose - The Fivefold Path To Liberation

How does one open the Rosebud? How does one awaken the Rose of the Heart, the latent Divine Spark that sleeps within the center of the microcosm?

The sleeping Rose is a Divine principle. It is the only part of the human personality that is not-of-this-world, As such, it will not respond to dialectical measures to awaken it. Therefore, the following practices will not be of any use in awakening the Rose:

- meditation
- concentration
- yoga
- splitting of the personality (i.e., astral travel, etc.)
- breathing exercises
- special diets
- tantric practices
- various narcotics and hallucinogens
- kundalini (as taught to the masses of the current era)

The above practices might help one to obtain consciousness in the astral planes of this nature-order, but they will still be prisoners of the Seventh Cosmic Domain, the undivine physical realm. They may achieve great heights and be crowned as "initiates" in the lofty heights of the reflection-sphere but they will still be lashed to the fence-posts of the earth-spheres.

That which is undivine can obtain no reaction from that which is Divine.The only way to awaken this Divine Principle - the Spirit-Spark Atom -  is to relink it with its Divine Origin, the Sixth Cosmic Domain. Once this Link is re-established, the Rose will awaken on its own. The candidate must not "do" anything to interfere or help in this process of Rebirth. The candidate must stand aside in not-doing and allowed the process to unfold. The most that one can do is to surrender the personal self to The Goal, as will be mentioned below.

There are five steps that the candidate must fulfill in order to reach the Good End.

Insight - "Man, Know Thyself". The candidate must gain insight as to his origins, his attributes, his current predicament, the nature of his imprisonment and the discovery of a Path to Liberation. The candidate must undertake to learn everything that he can about the Path of Return.

Yearning - once insight has been established and the candidate knows the truth about the earth experience that he has for so long accepted as "reality" and about the capabilities that have been embedded in the human personality for use in transfiguring the microcosm, he can do one of two things:

1. dismiss all that he has learned and go back to life as it was
2. from the depths of his being, begin to yearn with all of his might for Liberation

Self-surrender - to begin the process, the candidate must offer up his earthly personality. That is, he must stop living selfishly for the self, and instead, live for others. To serve the self is against everything the Gnosis represents. God, the Logos, The Only Good, gives to all. God does not take. If one is looking to re-link with the Divine, one must reflect that single attribute of the Divine, for only Like Attracts Like.

Gnostic Rosicrucians refer to this self-surrender as the endura, a "dying daily" to the things of this world. It is probably the most difficult part of the entire process because the self will not easily relinquish its control or its desires. Through weakness and uncertainty, the candidate will falter time and time again, yielding to selfishness. But he must persevere and weather all storms. He must remember that it is not he who will fight this battle against the self, but the Other One within, who is stepping forth from the opened Rose, gaining in power and might with each passing moment.

New Attitude of Life - once the self has been moved to the background, the Other One must take the lead in the life of the candidate. The candidate must effect a fundamental reversal in his manner of living and being. The earthly things that he once desired and reveled in he must renounce for good. The New Life that he leads while still on earth must consist of the following attributes:

- Complete Unselfishness
- Non-Attachment
- No Judgment
- No Criticism or Gossip
- Constant Service-To-Others
- Devotion to the Gnosis

As this New Attitude of Life becomes automatic for the candidate, the power of the Rose will manifest itself to an ever larger degree. The entire microcosm will begin to fill with the Light of the Gnosis. The New Soul, the Spirit-Soul will seek to re-unite with the Spirit. The Bride shall await the Bridegroom.

Liberation - Devotion to the New Life will result in permanent separation from the earth-spheres.  By way of a process, the old personality will completely diminish in its authority. It will not be erased, but will merge into the glory of the reborn microcosm. A total Transfiguration of all the vehicles of the personality will take place. That earthly personality will be the last earthly personality to incarnate in the microcosm. It will not taste death, but will instead share in the omniscient, omnipotent. multi-dimensional capabilities of the Heavenly Original Man. The Divine Link will be re-established. Eternity will break into Time. The microcosm will celebrate its victory over death and its return to the Fatherland, the Sixth Cosmic Domain.

There, in the briefest of summaries, is the fivefold process that must be followed in order to open the Rose, to allow it to bloom and restore the microcosm to Divinity.

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Transfiguration: The Ultimate Goal

"Transfiguration means devoting oneself as an earthly, nature-born human-being to the creation, the genesis of the Other One; to the vivification of the 'image with the dead eyes'.

Can we do that? Yes, we can. It is even our calling, our task, our vocation. It is for that we have come into being. If we do nothing more than follow our natural urges as earthly beings, then, as we follow the road of dialectical experience, of rising, shining and fading, the time will come when death will take us.

If, however, we take up our Calling, we will see a Heavenly Man growing within our microcosm, Who will stand before us as the wholly Other One. And through his devotion, his self-surrender to that Other One, the earthly man will one day die, merge and rise again in Him who is the Other One. This second death then signifies the victory over death".

From "The Essential Mystery of Man" The Egyptian Arch-Gnosis, Vol III - Jan van Rijckenborgh

This is man's true Calling. This is why we return. As personalities, it is our job to deliver the microcosm back to its Divine Home. That is the reason behind the Divine Plan of Salvation. This plan is being thwarted by the fact that the personality, the image-bearer, has forgotten his task, has gone off the rails and is following its own self-will, which is in error. As a result, Ignorance has taken the lead in the life of the personality, with Fear as the horseman.

It is the greatest triumph when even one human personality remembers his purpose and decides to take up his task. From that moment on, a change begins to take place within the microcosm. This change, if nurtured, encouraged and supported by the Gnosis, will ultimately result in the liberation of the Other One from the prison of the natural body. The personality responsible for initiating this transfiguration will not taste death, but will merge its consciousness with that of the newly reborn Divine Man and, in unity, will leave this finite nature-order and return to the Sixth Cosmic Domain.

The true candidate must release self-focus and recognize that he is but an image-bearer, with a very important task to perform for the Other entity that sleeps within the microcosm. Most are not ready to let go of their self, as they fear some sort of "annihilation". This is so far from the truth. When one takes up the task of delivering the microcosm from this fallen universe, that one begins to live, truly.

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Truth Not Well-Received

"There is a time during the developmental phases of the young brother or sister of the Rosycross, when they think that the world will welcome this announcement with great enthusiasm. They are naive enough to assume that just as they were allowed to immerse themselves for the first time in the Living Water of the Universal Knowledge, so others will follow their Awakening Call with great gladness. Then they learn to understand the truth of the words of the Fama Fraternitatis:

The careless world will be but little pleased herewith and slander, derision, and mockery will increase. Laughter, derision, and mockery are the reward of the servant of God whenever they dare to speak and testify of the Universal Knowledge"

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